Department Info - Faculty

Professor
Elizabeth Young
Women writers; feminist theory; film; American literature; American studies; visual culture

Associate Professors
Robin Blaetz
Experimental film; women and film; film and history; modernism and the cinema; French and Italian film history; Joan of Arc in film

Mary Renda, chair
U.S. women’s and gender history; the history of U.S. imperialism and anti-imperialism; the United States and the Caribbean; Haitian history and politics; racism and anti-racism; feminist theory

Eleanor Townsley (on leave AY08-09)
The sociology of intellectuals; cultural sociology; sociology of gender; history of sociology; research methods; social theory; the public sphere

Assistant Professors
Christian Gundermann
Twentieth-century Latin American, specifically Argentine, film and literature; post-dictatorship studies; queer theory; queer culture and politics in regional and global contexts

Michael Penn (on leave AY08-09)
Early Christianity; Biblical studies; church history; early Judaism; gender studies; ritual studies; methodology in religious studies; Early Christian/Muslim relations

Senior Lecturer
Martha Ackmann (on leave AY08-09)
women athletes, women in aviation and space, women in national politics, U.S. women’s movements, Emily Dickinson; narrative non-fiction; journalism; media; women’s public voices

Visiting Assistant Professors
Ana Croegaert
Gender; migration; urban studies; discourse analysis; policy formations

Chaia Heller
Political ecology; science and technology studies; feminist anthropology; food and agriculture in a global context; anthropology of social movements; women’s roles in transnational indigenous and peasant movements